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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Protection bits
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 23:19:09 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4cupkt$38r@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <john.hendrikx.44q1@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:
-
- >Maybe the filesystem could be extended with somekind of hook which sets the
- >file-type correctly by looking at the first 512-bytes of the file when it is
- >first written/modified.
-
- I think that's pretty meaningless. It would help only for searching
- a disk for files of a specific type and it would generate the bloat
- and incompatibility of the Mac filesystem.
-
- If you really want fast redundant information (a cache so to say) then
- use a cache which can be an ordinary file.
-
- >This would make doing a directory with FileID's and with only IFF files in them
- >really fast, like on the MAC's
-
- Like what ? :)
-
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- Michael van Elst
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